The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 5, 1903, Page 24

24 ' PEMBERTON IS WRITING || NEW NOVEL OF VENICE AND E OF NAPOLEON IN ITALY 5 M/S LAWRENC L g A ALNMA — TADEMA ~ 7)) FHEOL 1L fsUSTRATED L ONDON 7 | : e - — =] ] ) | TER OF GREAT PAINTER, WHO HAS IN PREPARA- | | 1< ME CALLED “SONGE OF WOMANKIND.” FROM | OHN COLLIER I { e e —3 | AX PEMBERTON, who is liv- | for publication. It was Miss Alma-Ta- | ¢ present at Brighton, is | dema’s “Wings of Tcarus” which was cne aged. according to London | O the first volumes of the Pioneer Li- espondence, upon a mnovel | PTATY- = for the Gra which will ap- | N S a0 TR this year. 1t| 14icas Malet has nearly finished a new y novel. Mrs. Harrison, who has now come | s of the Venetien s campalgn in Italy s for Venetian his- at time are few, color be- &4 matter of some difficulty. Pem- berton does the best part of his work in the morning, and an old habit of doing nothing from half-past 1 o'clock till inherited from ings to him. vever, he often end half-past 7 s his work at deals with the last tter than in the morning. He does not like working before the day 4 That is, too ecarly in the He cannot work in town. Last bs In a cottage and thi where, however, the be town sadly interferes with fon. The country is Pember- ite place for work. He writes . laboriously with a pen, and only dictates letters and occasionally the revision of chapters. His recreation con- sists of automobiling and golf. o Miss Laurence Alma-Tadema, one of the gifted daughters of the great painter, Sir Jaurence Alma-Tadema, is surely an art- t of the word. She Is , ke her father, but n and poel. She is known, perhape. best for her sympathetic trans- lation of Maeteriinck’s plays, while her postry i= characterized by much charm and delicacy. She has now in preparation 2 mew volume called “Songs of Woman- kind,” which Grant Richards has in hand ————— LDVEERTISEMENTS. * Oriental fioods% Oriental Rugs Curtains and Novelties at 25 per cemt discount from regu-! lar price. % : : | 1000000000000 000 000000000000 00 0000 iChas. M. Plum & Co. 1 Cor. 9th and Market Sts. Dreserossessrsrretsres 5| of the day, from the pen of Frank Danby. s winter has been at | habitual | 1o the conclusion that her advisers are | | right, and that her successful novel, ““The | History of Richard Calmady.” should not | be dramatized, 1s shortly going to India for the benefit of her health. ! e A new novel, dealing with society life | author of “A Babe in Bohemia” and other novels, is to be Issued soon after Easter | by Heinemann. It is some time since any ! works of this novelist have been pub- | lished. They are wont to be pungent, as the new ome promises to be but Frank Danby has not been idle in the interim, | for the name merely hides the identity | | of Mrs. Julla Frankau, the authoress of | Several books on art subjects which have | been published in recent years. S o A correspondent in the Bookselier points | i out inconsistencies which appear in the | grants of pensions to FEnglish literary men. In 1201 Austin Dobson, who has pension of more than £500 (32500) 2 vea | and vrobably makes more than that from | his literary work, was granted an addl- | tional £250 ($1250) per annum from the | { civil list. The same pension was granted |10 Matthew Arnold. twenty years ago,| | when he was recelving £500 ($4000) a year | as an Inspector of schools. Quite lately | | the same sum was granted to W. E. | | Henley, who is still quite a successful | | writer. On the other hand, the distin- | | guished Scottish historian, Dr. John Mac- | kintosh, who has devoted his life and | learning to the production of important | worls of history, receives only £50 (3260) | from the civil list. The inference from | all this s, of course. that pensions are | not given fo encourage the production of | #00d work by those who otherwise could not produce it. It is obvious that research work in history, philosophy or science, while by no means the least important, is the least jucrative. | . . | One of the most interesting biographical works of the season promises to be the “Memoirs of Anna Maria Wilhelmina Pickering,” edited by her son, Spencer | Pickering, ¥. R. S., printed for private | circulation only. The memoirs, which are to be in two volumes, will contain nu- merous hitherto unpublished stories, an- | ecdotes and reminiacences of many well known personages and places, including Queens Adeiaide and Victoria, the An- sons, Napoleon, the Duke of sex, the Collingwoods, _Roseberys, Macdonalds, Fitzwilliams, Harcourts, Hardys, Mur- rays, Lord Houghton, Wellington, Jenny Lind and other contemporary celebrities. R Tt is not often that a boom is accorded to anything presumably so solid as a quarterly review of religion, theology or philosophy. This is an undoubted fact in the case of the new quarterly called the Libbert Journal, as three reprints of its | first number have been called for within a2 month of publication. After the type had been distributed the demand contin- ued, -and the matter is.now being reset, making a fourth impression. It is also avorthy of note that a third impression of the second number is on the prese. e r————— According to Dr. Pinard*of Paris many careless persons catch contaglous diseases by taking off their dusty shoes and then sitting down to a meal without washing their hands. 4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY. APRIL 5, 1903. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. Acdress Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager JOFN D. SPRECKELS. Proprietor. 4 8 T R it T P RS s S ST e N L B T O RN P S R B e Sae B APRIL 5, 1903 Publication OMOS........ocueeess 0 o 0 ...@,.............,......m:d‘mx.xmsmm,sr. A MAN OF ACTIOIN. HE President has addressed the country on our foreign policy, and our domestic policy as to trusts. He has indulged in no generalities, but he has laid down the principles of American politics on. what immediately impresses the country as new lines. He has uttered no word of partisanship. IHe regards what has been done as the act of the country, no matter what party was the instrument of the action. His words appeal to Americans, not to Republicans or Democrats. It may be fairly and truthfully said that his declarations are expressive of the highest and most disinterested purposes of the best and most thoughtful men of all parties. Whether he so in- tends it, or not, his line of policy works the cancellation of past party divisions, and it brings in sight a general merging of partisanship in behalf of the vast and varied interests of the whole country and all the people. It will be difficuit indeed for a partisan opposition to frame a series of declarations that will antagonize his expressed purpose. What a marvelous change is exhibited when the new politics, of which he s the inspiration, is compared with the issues that absorbed the attention of public men in the last century! For forty years the best intellect of the Union was engaged in discussing the Missouri Compromise, the right of petition, the Wilimot Proviso, the status of Territories, the jurisdiction over the question of slavery, the constitutional nature of the Union itself. These issues, important in themselves and in their time, are exhausted. They are settled, and now the country turns to the consideration of issues arising in the application of our system to the home concerns, the daily business, the personal interests of the people, regardless of State or section. It is a critical time. Our foreign policy reacts upon our home concerns. The President founds that policy upon a kindly feeling for the views and rights of other nations, and a firm stand for our own. Such rasping comparisons as were thoughtlessly indulged in by Admiral Dewey are regarded by him as unnecessary. His gpigrams will become the rule of conduct for our people, in the new and larger part our country is to play on the stage of world affairs. “We want the friendship of all mankind. We want peace. We wish well to all nations. That a man talks loud does not mean that he will fight hard.” . In his Milwaukee speech he fearlessly and frankly discussed the trusts, giving reasons for the recent legislation on that subject, and stating what has been accomplished by enforcing the law. It is known that Mr. J. J. Hill, of the Great Northern, has indulged in very drastic criticism of the President personally for instigating the suit to dissolve the Northern Securities Company, the great railroad trust by which Mr. Hill sought to involve a number of parallel railroads. serving the same territory, in a scheme by which they would be enabled to make joint traffic agreements, give secret re- bates and discriminate between shippers, to the injury of individuals and localities. Having made up his mind that, “whatever its purpose, its consummation would have resulted in the control of the two great railways upon which the people of the Northwest were so largely dependent for their sup- plies, and to get their products to market, being practically merged into the New Jersey corporation,” in violation of the law and of popular rights, the President said that he directed proceedings to pre- vent the formation of such a monopoly. In like manner the meat and salt trusts were proceeded against, and each has been dissolved and put under permanent judicial ban. The same result is anticipated in the case of the Securities Company. His resume of what has been agcomplished in enforcing the law in restraint of the power of combined wealth to inflict popular injury is a truthful and satisfactory history, that stamps him as a man of action, with a purpose single to the one great object of impairing the harmful power of combination, and to secure the commercial and industrial freedom required for the general pros- perity. While this action has been effective it has been conservative, directed against the power to do harm and sparing the power to do good. In giving this interesting history and declaration of policy the President utters not one epithet nor word of invective, and not a symptom of demagogy appears in it all. The country will observe and remember that he believes in the power of the law to deal with these evils, and it is perfectly clear that the remedies he has instigated and put in action are the only alternative of the socialistic treatment of the issue, with which his opponents have made the people familiar. This fact stands out with a prominence that ¢annot be overlooked: the policy of Roosevelt must be the policy of the country, or socialism must be accepted, with ali its drastic changes in the common life of the people, and its complete destruction of our system of government and its institutions. AMERICAN MANNERS. R. LORENZ since his return to Europe has been giving his countrymen in Vienna his im- pressions of the United States, and very naturally he has dropped the bland complimegts which he made use of when speaking to us in the capacity of a guest talking to a gen- erous and appreciative host. In Vienna Dr. Lorenz says frankly what he thinks of us, and in doing so has expressed his sutprise at our democratic manners. In fact he says he found his greeting to be in many ways very funny. As an illustration of our democratic manners Dr. Lorenz says that on one occasion as he re- turned to his hotel a big policeman followed him and said, “Are you the famous doctor of Vienna?” On admitting his identity, the policeman grabbed him by the hand and shook it so roughly that Dr. Lorenz was irritated and tried to pull his hand away. Whereupon the policeman said, cordially, “I just wished to shake hands with you, sir,” and walked off. Shortly afterward the doctor visited Washington and called on the President. In giving an account of the interview, he says: “Mr. Roosevelt walked quickly toward me, and said: ‘Are you the famous doctor of Vienna? Let me shake hands with you. Just this morning Mrs. Roosevelt spoke of you.” And the President shook my hand heartily. It was rude, but I could not help laughing in the President’s face. Mr. Roosevelt not only looked like my Chicago policeman, but he employed exactly the same mode of greeting. The conversation was unconventional, without the slightest formality. One of the gentlemen present, a high dignitary, kept his hand in his trousers pocket and another rested his knee on a chair and rocked it back and forth. All this seemed strange to me,” : We have here an illustration of one of the marked differences between the democratic free- dom of American manners and the lack of it in Europe. We have no such thing as class manners in this country, nor can we understand why any one should wish them. Tt is not funny to us that all Americans should have about the same style of greeting men whom they honor. It is in fact one of the glories of our country that it is so. Between the President of the United States and the humblest citizen there is no awkwardness when they meet, whether it be in the White House or at a railway station during a Presidential tour. In either case it is the same cordial utterance of welcoming words and a hearty handshake. Such manners are good enough for us“and there are no better in the world, for they are/the manners of free men. Our North Atlantic squadron is to visit Lisbon, but is not to visi® Kiel, and as the Germans dislike our neglect to visit their port, it would be supposed the Portuguese would be delighted by our visit to them. However, they are not. Some of them, indeed, are grumbling that it is a piece of impudence on our part to make a display in Portuguese waters showing how we could blockade Lis- bon if we felt like it. e e A self-styled great asphalt combination floated bonds and stocks of a nominal value of $30,000,000 in the East, chiefly in Philadelphia, and now it is said the whole lot are not worth more than the price of the paper in the junk market. So it appears there are some trusts that can be relied upon to do their own “busting.” i From the stories that are told about the fake works of art that Pierpont Morgan bought we are inclined to believe that while he may have a cinch on the financial world, the world of art will be always too much for him. He can never buy old masters as fast as the fake factories can turn them out. During the year 1902 over $35,000 was sent to the United States Treasury as “conscience money.” Plenty of people, it seems, are willing to repent when they rob the Government, but we never hear of any one showing conscientious scruples and returning the money when he beats his fellow-man. i ~ i In Cleveland a man has been arrested and fined for snoring at a theater during a vaudeville performance. This incident will a; strange to us, but it seems that in Ohio they make a sharp distinction between a theater and a church. ’ BALLOONS TO TRAVEL FROM TUNIS TO TIMBUCTOO ACROSS THE SAHARA — BALLOON RECENTLY USED BY FRENCH ARMY OFFICERS IN EX- | PERIMENTS IN PRACTICAL AERIAL NAVIGATION, THETR ULTI- MATE PURPOSE BEING TO CROSS THE SAHARA DESERT. HILE Santos-Dumont and others have kept the world alive to the sensational possi- bilities of aerial navigation, cer- tain officers of the French army attached to the Corps of “Aerostiers,” have been devoting themselves to the practical question of going by balloon from some available point in Algiers or Tunis to Timbuctoo, in the center of the French Soudan. The results of their la- bors are described in a recent number of L/ Tlustration. “The project of lengthy journeys by bal- 1don by a new method of aerial naviga- tion was suggested In 1361 by Captain De- buraux of the company of “aerostiers,” | then stationed at Versailles. The method proposed by him consisted essentially in having from the underpart of the balleon | the permanent guide rope invented by | Green, but fixing to 1t a weight such that it would automatically keep the balloon in equilibrium, however Intense might be the risings and fallings produced by the | character of the ground over which it dragged, or the ascensional force of the | mass of light gas which it contained. This equilibrium realized, the question of disposition of ballast becomes simple and the aerial vessel could remain from six to eight days in the air. In conjunction with- the maritime en- gineer, M. Dibos, Captaln Deburaux sought to find if this method of aerial navigation on a long course would not perm!t the traversing of the Sahara in a balloon. They thought that the constant and regular trade winds which blow on the Atlantic at certain seasons of the year should at the same time be felt over the surface of the Sahara. The study of the reports of the explor- ers, Hourst, Marchand, Faureau-Lamy and others, convinced them of the feasi- bility of the undertaking. Their conclu- slons on the subject were approved by the French Academy of Sciences and the Smithsonian Institution at Washington. For a while Captaln Deburaux France, using on the ballon a heavy guide rope, but the fear of Injuring the properties passed over proved a serlous hindrance. An opportunity opening, however, for ex- perimentation on the Sahara, Captain I'eburaux unfolded his project to Count de Castillon de Saint Victor, who readily agreed to join him therein. To leave as little as possible to chance, ey resolved to make their experiments in three serles. The first, to determine by balicons of small volume the point in the Tunisian or Algerian Sahara where balloons could be started with some cer- titude of being carried by a temporary wind from the north to the region where commenced the regular trade winds. Gabes, a port of Tunis, seeming to re- spend to the need, with its frequent winds from the northeast, they chose this place of easy access by sea, from which to the zone of the Sahara trade winds they reck- cned only 400 to 500 kilometers (230 to 320 miles). To carry out this first idea on Wednes- day, January 14 last, they launched the Eclaireur from their camp, D’Ain-Zerig, rear Gabes. The breeze which carried it fell and the balloon being seized by the Aragbs was soon in a condition that pre- cluded its going further. Two days after a steady northeast wind having set in, the Leo-Dex (eighty-seven meters) was started. On Monday evening, January 19, a tel- and | Iieutenant Destouches experimented in | egram was received from the chief of the post @'Ouled-Djillal announcing that a balloon coming from the southeast had been caught by the natives some fifty- five miles away, about 370 from Gabes, on the afternoon of January 17. The telegram showed that the Leo-Dex had been stopped In its trial voyage after at least twenty-six hours of travel, in- terrupted by the gulde rope and that it had been carried back from the south by a stroke of the sirocco before baving reached the regiom of the trade winds. From an aerostatic point of view, how ever, the projectors had every reason to he satisfled, for the balloon, though no: rising high, had remained in the air for a long time and covered a. distance very remarkable for an aerostat of such small volume. The gulde rope had not become entangled, ror had the pigeons been re- leased, proving that it had not come in centaet with the earth. 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